Anybody good with pc's??

dill · Post by **dill** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:28 pm

DK if this'll help anyone, but:

I recently got a £2200 set-up (E6700 Core 2 Duo, 2Gb Ram, 512Mb 7900GTX Graphics, 600Gb HD etc.) & shit started crashing on me...

Turns out that it was DUST & crap inside the box causing overheat & shut-down.

Regularly clean-out your system. Allow it good ventilation & perhaps sing / talk dirty to it, & it'll love love you like only a beaten dog can...

lloydnoise · Post by **lloydnoise** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:51 pm

Whatever you do

GET A MACINTOSH.

two oh one · Post by **two oh one** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:56 pm

lloydnoise wrote:Whatever you do
GET A MACINTOSH.

kidlogic · Post by **kidlogic** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:24 pm

two oh one wrote:
kidlogic wrote:Not true... You can get a Mac, and do the dual boot thing where you have Windows for games, viruses and malware and OSX for production. Just make sure you get an Intel Mac if thats what you want to do with it.
Fixed that for you...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Word!

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:39 pm

you mac heads are all delusional!

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:47 pm

pk- wrote:
have a 80 gig harddisk,so i need to upgrade that anyways.
and im gonna buy some ram (small stick),and a motherboard.
should cost me £100 in all
you're probably getting this stuff anyway, but it doesn't sound like that would fix anything for you - it's almost definitely a heat issue with cpu2. turn the pc on with the case open to make sure the fan above your heatsink is actually spinning

what do you mean by 'motherboard disk' by the way?

whatever you do don't listen to things like

GET A MACINTOSH.

especially considering things like http://secunia.com/product/96/

i dont know how its done. but my pc has express recovery,and its puts everything back to basic windows.

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:48 pm

creepz wrote:my hl2 or css crashes to desktop if i havent got ram timmings set up properly when there overclocked not had a blue screen for longtime

what cpu have u got?
if its 939 dfi lanparty make exellent boards
i got mine for £35 (its a bargain)

and as someone said keeping fans etc clean and work really helps .

i have a athlon 64 3800+ x2
yes most motherboards are well valued now.

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:49 pm

DiLL wrote:DK if this'll help anyone, but:

I recently got a £2200 set-up (E6700 Core 2 Duo, 2Gb Ram, 512Mb 7900GTX Graphics, 600Gb HD etc.) & shit started crashing on me...

Turns out that it was DUST & crap inside the box causing overheat & shut-down.

Regularly clean-out your system. Allow it good ventilation & perhaps sing / talk dirty to it, & it'll love love you like only a beaten dog can...

i always leave my side off,so no doubt,dust is getting in lol

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:52 pm

Teknics wrote:definatly dont go with the mac suggestion, u'll end up spending ur next couple months wages on applications.

defo check the cpu fan, my bro had the same problem when playin games and he thought it was the graphics card over heating.

his solution was open the side and shuve a room fan facing the computer.

luckely i had a look and it turned out his CPU fan had died and hadnt been running for the last couple weeks. changed the fan, now it runs perfectly.

in ur case ur second cpu is running way to hot. average should be around 40-50 C depending on wat ur doing and how gd ur heatsink and fan is. latest cpu's run even less then that.

give us a run down of ur machine specs.

case is large with a large fan each side
Gigabite motherboard , sli,4 x ram slots
amd 64 x 2 3800+
4 x 512mb ram cheapo lol
Nvdia 7800gt 512mb ram
80 gig cheap hard-drive lol

creepz · Post by **creepz** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:24 pm

well if thats what uve got thoose temps r way to hot im clocked from 2.oghz to 2.6 and mines no where near that give inside a delicate hoover or get some dust off or what ever it called then report bk
And ure hl2 does that crash to desktop? if so could be ram timmings i use 4 x256 mb sticks it puts alot of strain on the memory controller which is on the cpu unlike intel
the remedys are buy 2 x 1012 or adjust ram timmings in bios

and lanparty aint value boards mate there elite tweeking boards mine was at reasonable price not for long tho lol

peace

ana · Post by **ana** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:24 pm

two oh one wrote:
lloydnoise wrote:Whatever you do
GET A MACINTOSH.

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:49 pm

creepz wrote:well if thats what uve got thoose temps r way to hot im clocked from 2.oghz to 2.6 and mines no where near that give inside a delicate hoover or get some dust off or what ever it called then report bk
And ure hl2 does that crash to desktop? if so could be ram timmings i use 4 x256 mb sticks it puts alot of strain on the memory controller which is on the cpu unlike intel
the remedys are buy 2 x 1012 or adjust ram timmings in bios

and lanparty aint value boards mate there elite tweeking boards mine was at reasonable price not for long tho lol

peace

no it crashes the whole pc.and the pc restarts

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:11 pm

why is one cpu's voltage nearly double the other's? is that normal?

also, looking at that screen it looks like you've only got 1 cpu fan?

creepz · Post by **creepz** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:11 pm

definetly heats sink fan , or cpu

right try this with pc switched on and side panel removed look at fans so u can see them all spinning (if cpu fan not spinning bingo) now turn off pc and see if the cpu fan slows down or just stops . if it stops dead while rest slowdown till they stop then ure fan naffed get replacemnt from almost any pc shop if that wasnt problem u really need to test the cpu in somebody else's motherboard , i have a similar gfx card and the ram on thoose is solid as so that shouldnt be problem , if alls sorted cpu wise and u still get crashes try removeing two sticks of ram

process of elimination compadre

if u want a good cpu cooler artic cooling freezer 64 pro costs around £15 to £20 inc delivery and is worth twice that , i sware by mine and im heavily overclocked

creepz · Post by **creepz** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:13 pm

why is one cpu's voltage nearly double the other's? is that normal?

also, looking at that screen it looks like you've only got 1 cpu fan?

is it dual core cpu and not 2x cpu's ?

try this programe to delve deeper

cpuz

just google it it will tell us allkinds

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:08 pm

creepz wrote:definetly heats sink fan , or cpu

right try this with pc switched on and side panel removed look at fans so u can see them all spinning (if cpu fan not spinning bingo) now turn off pc and see if the cpu fan slows down or just stops . if it stops dead while rest slowdown till they stop then ure fan naffed get replacemnt from almost any pc shop if that wasnt problem u really need to test the cpu in somebody else's motherboard , i have a similar gfx card and the ram on thoose is solid as so that shouldnt be problem , if alls sorted cpu wise and u still get crashes try removeing two sticks of ram

process of elimination compadre

if u want a good cpu cooler artic cooling freezer 64 pro costs around £15 to £20 inc delivery and is worth twice that , i sware by mine and im heavily overclocked

fan is fine

ive always had cooling problems with my pcs lol.
that artic cooler freezer sounds ace.
i dont know the normal for the voltages....
its a dual cpu.

dj slums · Post by **dj slums** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:43 pm

if the pc is restarting, go to -
start>control panel>system>advanced>start up and recovery>click settings>take tick out of auto restart on system failure.

this should give you an error msg rather than restart. may tell you what the problem is.

creepz · Post by **creepz** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:57 pm

if ya get that cpuz its only a small app it will state ure exzact cpu model(plus ram etc)
then i can look on amd database and find voltages etc

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:21 pm

dj slums wrote:if the pc is restarting, go to -
start>control panel>system>advanced>start up and recovery>click settings>take tick out of auto restart on system failure.

this should give you an error msg rather than restart. may tell you what the problem is.

thanks

i didnt know,u could do that on windows. about 2 hrs ago i was going to work in safe mode so i pressed f5 to f7

i could remember which was which. and i clicked on that option. and the pc has not closed down on me once since

dj slums · Post by **dj slums** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:26 am

feasible_weasel wrote:
dj slums wrote:if the pc is restarting, go to -
start>control panel>system>advanced>start up and recovery>click settings>take tick out of auto restart on system failure.

this should give you an error msg rather than restart. may tell you what the problem is.
thanks
i didnt know,u could do that on windows. about 2 hrs ago i was going to work in safe mode so i pressed f5 to f7 i could remember which was which. and i clicked on that option. and the pc has not closed down on me once since

good show mate.
seriously- dont listen to some of the crap people are telling you on here. buy this, buy that- if it was the cpu or the heatsink -you'd know. it wouldnt fucking restart if it was overheating. it'd stay off until it cooled. n ive seen a cpu run at over 100 degrees n still not shut down.

unfortunatley i fix pc's over the phone for a living. if you can call it that. pm me when you get the blue screen error msg.

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